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Hsiu-Cheng Lin (林秀丞)

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023LINH10

Hsiu-Cheng Lin (林秀丞) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.49, set at Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 214th in Chinese Taipei. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since September 2023, he has put 271 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.24 in September 2023 to 8.49, a 36% improvement. He has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.49
signature single · Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024
271
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×38.499.57
top 3.7%214 / 4,213
Pyraminx3.306.37
top 4.7%73 / 1,016
2×22.604.13
top 9.9%272 / 1,669
4×439.6344.70
top 11.7%265 / 1,078
5×51:13.231:25.42
top 14.0%200 / 639
Skewb6.069.06
top 26.2%245 / 699

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 13.24Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 12.33Taiwan Championship 2023: 10.33HCHS Winter Open 2024: 10.56Zhongshan Open 2024: 12.15Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 10.12Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 8.49Taiwan Championship 2024: 9.12BQHS Spring Open 2025: 10.15Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 9.69Taipei Summer Open 2025: 8.828.4913.2416 Sep 202328 Jun 2025

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.